Issue 2/2013
Unrest of Form
It seemed for a time as if new, unrelated forms of protest were perpetually springing into being in a simply inexhaustible series, dispersed all over the world. However, more recently it has looked as if the “old system” - or an equally authoritarian order now taking shape in this debate on more equitable living conditions - would ultimately continue to hold sway. This poses a series of highly charged new questions for people in the world of the arts and culture who are keen to express solidarity with this kind of protest movement. How can the art of today foster resistance against economic structures in which it participates itself nolens volens? Hasn’t all the potential of everything “difficult” and non-conformist long been annihilated behind the facades of spaces conceived as areas of freedom? Isn’t the project of a political aesthetic t... » read more
Net section
New Vision: A Retrospective View
On the phenomenon of the “New Aesthetic”
Franz Thalmair
Post-New Aesthetic?
On the symposium and exhibition “The Rules” at Frankfurt’s NODE13 – Forum for Digital Arts
Martin Conrads
The infra-quark universe
A project by filmmaker Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson on a science-fiction-script by Félix Guattari
Rahma Khazam
Spray can politics
Egyptians and Syrians discover graffiti as a means of public commentary
Mona Sarkis
Die Methode Fowler (II)
Christian Höller
Cinema in a Crematorium?
On the Forum Expanded exhibition Waves vs. Particles at this year’s Berlinale
Vera Tollmann
Unrest of Form
Project Proposal #6: Display, Shape as Form (Come the Fuck in or Fuck the Fuck off)
Johannes Porsch
Roundtable on the Relations of Theater, Performance and Visual Arts
Georg Schöllhammer, Keti Chukhrov, Hannah Hurtzig, Chris Kondek, Carola Dertnig, Stefanie Carp, Iris Dressler
The Anthropology of Performing
Keti Chukhrov
Das Unangemessene
Dora Garcia
The living room: Hospitality and plasticity
Catherine Malabou
A Watermark: Capitol Complex
Tris Vonna-Michell
Powers of Resistance: Ideology and Affect
A Interview with Brian Massumi
Yubraj Aryal
An Understanding of Forms, not Formlessness
Süreyyya Evren
„Free Popular Avantgarde“
Nicolas Siepen
LOOP
Judith Nika Pfeifer
Artscribe
Geschlossene Gesellschaft.
Elske Rosenfeld
Josef Dabernig
Susanne Neuburger
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Ines Kleesattel
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Christian Kravagna
Anna Jermolaewa
Andrey Parshikov
Aufstieg und Fall der Apartheid: Fotografie und Bürokratie des täglichen Lebens
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Materializing „Six Years“: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
Julia Moritz
New Impressions of Raymond Roussel
Monika Vykoukal
Iris Andraschek
Christa Benzer
Rosa Arbeit auf goldener Straße
Carola Platzek
39greatjones
Yvonne Volkart
Ragnar Kjartansson
Yvonne Volkart
Books
Isabell Lorey:
Die Regierung der Prekären
Gislind Nabakowski
Jens Kastner, Isabell Lorey, Gerald Raunig, Tom Waibel:
Occupy! Die aktuellen Kämpfe um die Besetzung des Politischen
Gislind Nabakowski
Rike Frank (Hg.):
Constanze Ruhm – Coming Attractions
Yuki Higashino
Heike Munder/Ulf Wuggenig (Hg.):
Das Kunstfeld. Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Jens Kastner
T. J. Demos:
Return to the Postcolony. Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art
Katrin Mundt
Antonio Altarriba/Kim:
Die Kunst zu fliegen
Martin Reiterer